Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Archives

Caring for elder loved ones as they age is as essential to us as it was to them when they cared for us. While bedsores, fall from beds, dehydration or malnourishment are often the most common problems associated with nursing homes and home health aide agencies, a shocking new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society reveals that many home health aide agencies recruit random strangers off the website, Craigslist, and place them in the homes of vulnerable elderly people. These agencies fail to perform national criminal background checks or drug testing, lie about testing the qualifications of caregivers, require no experience and provide no real training. This disturbing new trend is leaving our elder loved ones exposed to criminals, drug addicts, and people not qualified to be caregivers. This can often times result in nursing home abuse and neglect.

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